HAY GUIZE! Saw Nashville @ Round Rock on Saturday -- Sam Houston Bobblehead Night. I got to see Armando Benitez pitch! I recommend Round Rock for all your Austin Baseball needs (outside of UT).
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
was it under 100 degrees?
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 August 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! and not too rednecky! there is an altar to nolan ryan in the team shoppe
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently Beltran DH'd in Brooklyn tonight, plays the field tomorrow.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
2-4 w a big K in the 8th inning. ugliest crowd we'd ever been to for a game. Cyclones basically shat the bed twice in the late innings w RISP.
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 September 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
as ugly as the Shastaism "shat the bed"?
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
uglier.
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
quad-a slugger mike hessman played all nine positions for toledo tonight, struck out four times and took the loss
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 September 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Giants teen Villalona suspected of murder
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
SAL FASANO joins Blue Jays as Minor League skipper
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
BRING BACK ERNIE!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Good for Sal Fasano imo
― Meatcat (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/images/2009/12/01/poMdvWv3.jpg
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091201&content_id=7736292&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
former republican senator mike dewine purchases asheville tourists
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Any info RE: Tacoma and San Antonio facilities, etc?
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
kick
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Tacoma did a remodel this past offseason. i haven't been down there yet. the stadium's not right downtown. um, jessica simpson's ex-husband is part owner. that's about all i've got
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
fair enuf. Seattle's not in town the weekend I'm there so my buddy and i are going down why because it interesting
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
San Antonio vs Northwest Arkansas (?!?!?!) a light hitting affair near an AFB where you had KC-135s landing at regular intervals
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 17 April 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
tonight salt lake's peter bourjos became the ninth player in the 108-year history of the pacific coast league to hit three triples in one game. (salt lake lost, 13-11 in 10 innings.) the last to do it was mark bellhorn in 2000. one of the other seven was . . . bobby valentine.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 April 2010 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Having seen two AA games in my life I think I've noticed that they are rly well PLAYED games and the players are at an interesting place developmentally -- they're all pretty defensively adept, and some of the batters have the ML *sound* when the ball leaves the bat, but not so much power that the ball has more than a punchers' chance of getting out. You still see a lot of guys w/ weird deliveries throwing in the mid-80's though, which is kind of a drag when the hitters can't make contact
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 17 April 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
On Friday, the Chico Outlaws introduced female knuckle-ball pitcher Eri Yoshida to the media and Chico fans during a news conference at the Chico Sports Club. The 18 year old just arrived in California earlier Friday, and made the drive to Chico from San Francisco. She is just the second female to ever play professional baseball in the U.S. and was the first female to ever be drafted by a professional team in Japan.Speaking through an interpreter, Yoshida told Action News that she loves the clean air here in Northern California and is excited about pitching for the Outlaws. She said she was inspired to play baseball when she was young, because she was close to her older brother. Earlier this year Yoshida got some tips from fellow knuckleballer Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox. The Outlaws open their season on the road against Tijuana on Friday, May 21. Their home opener is Wednesday, May 26 .
Speaking through an interpreter, Yoshida told Action News that she loves the clean air here in Northern California and is excited about pitching for the Outlaws. She said she was inspired to play baseball when she was young, because she was close to her older brother. Earlier this year Yoshida got some tips from fellow knuckleballer Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox. The Outlaws open their season on the road against Tijuana on Friday, May 21. Their home opener is Wednesday, May 26 .
― Andy K, Saturday, 8 May 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
had no idea about this league btw:
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Golden Baseball LeagueFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Golden Baseball League, based in San Ramon, California, is a professional independent baseball league with teams in the western United States, Canada and Mexico.
The GBL is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or the organized Minor League Baseball system, but has featured players with MLB experience (Rickey Henderson, Jose Canseco, Alex Arias, Bud Smith, Desi Wilson, Jose Lima, Hideki Irabu, Junior Spivey) as well as many young players that hope to one day reach the majors. It was formed in 2004 and began play on May 26, 2005. The GBL has a drug-testing policy that has the same standards as the Olympics, becoming the first baseball league to do so in North America.[1]
As an independent baseball league, the GBL exists to give professional baseball players who are not currently under contract with a Major or Minor League organization another chance at playing at the professional level. Officials in the baseball industry have stated the GBL level of play to be at the Double-A level.[2] Over 100 players have been sold to MLB organizations since it began play, with four players already making it to a major league uniform – Adam Pettyjohn, Scott Richmond, Chris Jakubauskas, and Sergio Romo*.
*This is the guy who has blown numerous games for SF this season, kudos.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 8 May 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL Kevin Mench just got run for flipping his bat in the SYR/TOL Strasburg game
― Andy K, Monday, 24 May 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
On MLB Network now
http://media.philly.com/images/300*265/20100527_inq_ajohn27z-a.JPG
Ryan Howard Garden Gnome Giveaway
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay that's really creepy looking.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
and it handles throws better than Ryan does.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
In case you were wondering what Bill Haselman has been up to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVJI6ycFXw
― Andy K, Friday, 4 June 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
welcome to high desert
― mookinho (mookieproof), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
why SNY be all up on Wally Backman's jock
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
also, anyone feel like cyclones or SI Yanquis tonite?
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Greenville Drive 12, Rome Braves 6
Asset of Class A hacking: 30-hit ballgame; time: 2:35
fave new name: Rome's South African DH Riaan Spanjer-Furstenburg
and kudos to whoever tailors Rome's uni pants -- no baggies there.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2010/08/08/manager-out-after-anti-rant-against-umpire/
― Andy K, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
why am i not shocked this was in Edmonton.
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brentbowers150.jpg
just for the record, i would never let anyone who looked like this talk down to me EVER.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Hope this dickhole never works again.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
in 36 games since july 14, tyler moore of the high a potomac nationals is batting .426 with:
18 homers17 doubles55 rbi.943 slg
*not in the california league, either
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 August 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
btwn games of Cyclones' twinbill tonight, my comedian friend is going to play Ralph Kramden.
(dunno if it's Bus Driver Night)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
wld have rly liked to have gone to SI yanks tonite but going to art show instead (?) for netwroking reasons. maybe saturday night though it's the last weekend and wld likely be crazy. I have no idea why NYC didn't get a proper long season AAA/AA team ffs.
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp just looked up that guy's bbref page and it seems the nats had some infatuation with him:
Drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 41st round of the 2005 MLB June Amateur Draft, the Washington Nationals in the 33rd round of the 2006 MLB June Amateur Draft and the Washington Nationals in the 16th round of the 2008 MLB June Amateur Draft.
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone done AFL?
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
No but Ive been to AZ for spring training a ton of times and its always excellent. I would imagine this is a less fratty experience.
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah agreed. I saw that last year they had a series with Team China, which I would have LOVED to have gone to, but it does't look like they'll be doing anything similar this year. I dunno, it's like 600.00 r/t from NYC, plus tix, plus lodging, + car if I'm going to drive, plus I guess I should keep boycotting Arizona because I'm ethnic looking...
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
if you want to go to AZ for anything beisbol related just go for spring training. its a blast.
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
word. I would probs do grapefruit league just coz it's closer and cheaper to fly to FLA
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Dodgertown RIP
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
oliver perez made his debut with the double-a harrisburg senators tonight
5 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 3 K, 2 BB
79 pitches, 44 strikes
and all this against the second-best hitting team in the eastern league
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 May 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
jupiter and clearwater are headed to the bottom of the 21st inning tied at one
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2011_05_23_clrafa_jupafa_1
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg84/scaled.php?tn=0&server=84&filename=linescore.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
total record by all farm teams
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6347/farmstandings.gif
obviously this doesn't mean a whole lot -- winning is better than losing but of secondary importance in the minors, having a couple awesome prospects is better than a team of overachievers, the rays and royals systems are better than these standings would indicate, etc.
but god damn would u look at the aStRoS
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
the dodgers had alot of talent in a-ball and rookie league this year and some maturing pitching prospects in aa.. albuquerque continues to be a joke.
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
notice teams like Royals, Rays, O's and Marlins - all teams that are banking on youth movements - are in the bottom 1/2.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised to see the Braves near the bottom. Maybe the player development people are so good at their job they get the young'uns graduated to the bigs before they can help the minor league clubs. (Freeman, Heyward, O'Ventbrel et al)
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
and as a J's fan i welcome their prospect's inability to raise their respective teams above 500. (to what i posted earlier)
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
well, there are only so many players that actually matter. it's a lot more important to the future of the braves that julio teheran is awesome than that gwinnett wins something.
the royals' youth movement has pretty much arrived (except for the pitchers, who haven't). hosmer/moustakas/giavotella won their double-a league last year and the royals' triple-a team won the pcl this year even with them gone. they're still waiting on pitchers montgomery and odorizzi and outfielders wil myers and lorenzo cain (who inexplicably hasn't gotten a callup). there's not much at the lower levels and doesn't really need to be since all the positions in kc are taken.
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
i may have mentioned this before, but the blue jays totally go out of their way to pick up canadian players, all other things being equal.
obviously a lot of minor leaguers are long shots or projects, but the adam loewens tend to end up in the toronto system. he was obviously a top prospect anyway, but i kind of wonder how much that weighed into their trade for lawrie.
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
aside from the recent Anthopolis years, i don't really think that's been the case.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
oh, they don't necessarily pan out such that anyone would notice, but it's still pretty cool.
it's kind of like the dodgers taking mike piazza in the 62nd round as a favor, except with more toques and less bacne
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
i would believe it for sure with AA - but under Ricciardi... the howler monkeys on the Js message board were always going berzerk that he was overlooking quality Canadian player like Votto etc.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm - maybe you're right - i found a list of Canadian minor leaguers from 2007. the J's were second only to the Brewers with 10.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Showing some preference for Canadian prospects makes sense, I'm not saying you pass up on top prospects to get them, but in terms of future marketability it's a good idea to target Canadian players. Not to mention that every Canadian baseball player probably grew up as a Jays (and Expos) fan and dreamed of playing for the Jays someday, maybe that's a factor too (the benefits of having only one (RIP Expos) MLB team for the entire country).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
they also went against the grain of trying to have affiliates closer to home by switching out their new york-penn league team for vancouver. (they got stuck with las vegas at the end of the last triple-a musical chairs.)
i don't understand why someone (i.e. the jays) doesn't put a minor league team -- even a short-season club -- in montreal. there's an nypl team in vermont already, so the travel isn't prohibitive and it wouldn't honestly require much more than a glorified high school field. it's a big city with serious baseball history. baseball needs arrêt-courts.
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
or is it arrêts-court?
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
i don't speak spanish.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
you guys
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 September 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link